Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 47

He sat erect on his throne, and held out the goblet of wine with a steady hand, and bent on Theseus a frown of kingly severity; for, after all, he had too noble a spirit to murder even a treacherous enemy with a deceitful smile upon his face.

Who acts: man, kingly severity · What happens: sit, hold out, bend, have, murder, frown · To what, where: throne, goblet, frown, Theseus, noble spirit, treacherous enemy

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, kingly severity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 throne	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 throne	nmod:poss
6	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 held	cc
9	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 held	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goblet	det
12	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 held	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wine	case
14	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 goblet	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 hand	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hand	det
17	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hand	amod
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wine	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bent	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bent	cc
21	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 Theseus	case
23	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bent	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 frown	det
25	frown	frown	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bent	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 severity	case
27	kingly	kingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 severity	amod
28	severity	severity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 frown	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 all	case
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 for	punct
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 had	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
37	too	too	ADV	_	38 noble	advmod
38	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 spirit	amod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 spirit	det
40	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 murder	mark
42	murder	murder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	advcl
43	even	even	ADV	_	46 enemy	advmod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 enemy	det
45	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 enemy	amod
46	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 murder	obj
47	with	with	ADP	_	50 smile	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 smile	det
49	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 smile	amod
50	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 enemy	nmod
51	upon	upon	ADP	_	53 face	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 face	nmod:poss
53	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 smile	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	man		man's throne	erect property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
2	hold out	participle	man not said here	the goblet of wine with a steady hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme
3	bend	participle	man not said here	a frown of kingly severity	Theseus		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent frown=Theme on theseus=Location
4	have	past	man	a noble spirit		for all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient
5	murder	to-infinitive	man not said here	a treacherous enemy		with a deceitful smile upon man's face	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient with smile=Instrument
6	frown		kingly severity				nom frown «communication intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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